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Kolchak was born in St Petersburg, the son of a retired naval officer from a noble background. He was educated at St Petersburg’s Lyceum before joining the navy’s cadet corps, intent on becoming a career officer like his father. Kolchak graduated with an officer’s commission in 1894. In 1900, he participated in two expeditions to the Arctic Circle.

Alexander Kolchak was a commander in the Russian Imperial Navy during World War One and a Polar explorer. He is best known, however, as one of the leaders of the White anti-Bolshevik movement in...

Aleksandr Kolchak was appointed the Military and Navy Minister. As the result of a coup, during which Cossack detachments arrested the major heads of the Provisional All-Russian Government, the remaining Council of Ministers took power and elected Kolchak as the Supreme Ruler of the Russian State.

Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (Russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Колча́к, 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1874 – 7 February 1920) was a polar explorer and commander in the Imperial Russian Navy, who fought in the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War.

Legendary Russian Admiral Alexander Kolchak did not allow Allied interventionists to take Russia’s gold reserves out of the country. He was, in the end, betrayed by French General Maurice Janin...

Alexander Kolchak, the son of a major-general of the Marine Artillery, was born in St Petersburg in 1873. Kolchak graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1894. He joined the Russian Navy and served in Vladivostok (1895-1899). Kolchak took part in the Polar expedition led by Eduard Toll (1900-1902).

At the age of 19 she married Admiral Sergey Nikolayevich Timiryov with whom she soon had a son, but whom she divorced in 1918 to join Alexander Kolchak. [1] After Kolchak's execution in 1920, she was arrested several times and served several prison and labour camp sentences. In 1923 she married Vsevolod Kniper, a railroad engineer.